Newsom Does Davos

At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the world witnessed what Californians have known for decades: Gavin Newsom is the neighbor that keeps showing up uninvited at your family gatherings.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it best:

Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken, may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris. He’s here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros, and Davos is the perfect place for a man who, when everyone else was on lockdown, when he was having people arrested for going to church, he was having $1,000 a night meals at the French Laundry.

While we can debate the merits of the WEF, the annual event is for international leaders, not failing governors who have destroyed their state.

But that didn’t stop Newsom and his entourage from showing up because he is “president” of a state that he claims would be the fourth-largest economy if it were a country. Of course, if California were a country, it’s likely Newsom would want to secure its borders, something he won’t do as governor. Californians who work and pay taxes are leaving the state and being replaced with illegal aliens whose first English words are “give me” as in health care, education, housing, and food.

Bessent wasn’t done addressing Gavin Newsom’s desperate attention-seeking stunts. During a Politico interview in Davos, Bessent said:

To say strange things like, ‘President Trump is a Tyrannosaurus rex,’ what the hell does that mean? I could say Gavin Newsom is a brontosaurus with a brain the size of a walnut.

 

Many Californians would say a walnut is too large. Newsom’s arrogance and ignorance are astounding. For instance, in 2025, on his podcast (because what else does the governor of the nation’s largest state have to do?), he said it was “deeply unfair” that boys were playing in girls’ sports when discussing the trans issue with the late Charlie Kirk.

Yet Newsom continues to support and sign legislation that allows boys (aka trans) to keep playing in girls’ sports and show up in their locker room. Guess “deeply unfair” is Newsom-speak for “It’s okay with me.”

Newsom’s ignorance is overwhelming. He’s also strangled the state with his willingness to lie to fit whatever narrative he wants the leftist press to report. Still, he can’t hide from how the state went from a huge surplus to a budget shortfall during his tenure. In 2019, his first year in Sacramento, there was a $21.4 billion budget surplus. His latest budget will have at least an $18 billion deficit. Maybe Newsom should take some economic classes at a Minneapolis Learing center.

The nicest way to describe Newsom’s ignorance (beyond what Bessent said at Davos) is that he’s the kind of politician who would show up at a synagogue for a Holocaust memorial wearing a keffiyeh thinking it was a prayer shawl.

Gavin Newsom excels at talking and saying nothing. Consider that 2026 is the 23rd anniversary of Newsom’s 10-year plan to end homelessness in San Francisco. The only time homelessness ended in San Francisco was in 2023 when Chinese President Xi Jinping showed up for the Asia-Pacific Economic (APEC) summit. For a few days, residents were able to walk its streets without checking the bottom of their shoes.

At Davos, the international community learned that Gavin Newsom is exactly as Scott Bessent described him. We watched the hapless governor standing in the back of the auditorium like a nobody for 70 minutes as President Trump gave his well-received speech. We applauded when Fortune disinvited him from a panel discussion. We laughed at the memes showing him wearing kneepads with his “sugar daddy,” Alex Soros.

Following his embarrassment at Davos, the guy still has no self-awareness of how ridiculous he comes across. Following President Trump’s withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), Newsom felt he had to act since, in his walnut-sized brain, he is president of the People’s Republic of California. Newsom met with organization leaders and became the first (and so far, only) governor to join WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network (GOARN). This probably put Newsom and WHO in the news as people asked, “WHO is Gavin Newsom?”

Davos was not the first time Newsom has shown up uninvited at an event expecting to be welcomed by fellow attendees. Truth is, when Newsom shows up in many cities throughout the once Golden State, he is as welcome as Manson followers at Sharon Tate’s home.

Gavin Newsom is currently the Democrat Party’s leading presidential candidate for 2028. Those who like homeless drug addicts living on their street, thugs robbing them while shopping, fire hydrants without water, billion-dollar high-speed trains going nowhere, taxes raping their paycheck, and illegal aliens getting benefits citizens can’t afford will enthusiastically shout, “Patrick Bateman for President in 2028!”

Robin M. Itzler is a regular contributor to American Thinker. She is the founder and editor of Patriot Neighbors, a free weekly national newsletter, and can be reached at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com.

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